House Proceeding on Jan 14th, 2009 :: 2:39:20 to 2:59:20
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Speech By: David Loebsack

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David Loebsack: recognized for 30 seconds. mr. loebsack: thank you, madam speaker. we have voted for similar schip measures in the past, but those efforts were thwarted time and time again. i believe today is a new day. today we will send a clear message to those who need our

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Danny K. Davis: help the most. our children. this congress and the new administration will tell the 38,000 uninsured children in iowa and the millions more across the country that we care and we will no longer leave them without the health care they need. i look forward to casting my vote in strong support of this legislation. i urge my colleagues to do the same.

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Speech By: Danny K. Davis

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Danny K. Davis: i yield back the remainder of my time. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california, mr. stark. mr. stark: madam speaker, i'm delighted to recognize for one minute the distinguished gentleman om illinois, mr. davi the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois is recognized for one minute. mr. davis: i a unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without

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Danny K. Davis: objection, so ordered. mr. davis: thank you so much, madam speaker. let me first of all thank the gentleman for yielding time. i'm pleased to rise in strong support of the children's health program. and i'm pleased to note that my state, the state of illino, has made it possible for every child to receive access to health care.

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Danny K. Davis: to see that this action takes place across the country so that every child no matter who he or she might be have an opportunity to grow and develop to become the kind of person that their potential provides. it's a great day for the united states of america. it's a great day for this congress.

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Fortney Pete Stark: it's a great day for all the children in america. i thank the yield back the balance of my time the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from california, mr. stark. mr. stark: madam speaker, i yield myself two minutes.

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Speech By: Fortney Pete Stark

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Fortney Pete Stark: the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. stark: thank you. i just want to rise and ask my colleagues to support h.r. 2. it's done a lot of things. it expands insurce coverage another and you can argue one way or the other that they may have insurance someplace else. but this will guarantee that

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Fortney Pete Stark: those four million additional children will get the medical care or the insurance without the -- without which they won't get medical care, first class medical care in this country. we have passed this bill and several different forms in the past. we have enjoyed and i want to thank 40 or 50 millions who

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Fortney Pete Stark: crossed the aisle who supported it in the past. we have made some changes and we have acknowledged the legitimacy of all legal residents in our nation by giving states the option to cover them if they choose. i'm glad to report that the bill is fully financed. we could argue about what

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Fortney Pete Stark: happens four, five years out, but i'm sure we'll have more of an argument on whether the very rich should enjoy escaping capital gains tax or we should do away with the inheritance tax or -- which would bother many of the opponents much more than the idea of the tobacco tax or

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Fortney Pete Stark: indeed the prohibition on the unethical kickbacks that physicians receive from ownership hospitals, most of which are questionable safety and quality. this legislation expands health coverage to our nation's children. and it is worthy of our support. i'd like to take just a moment

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Fortney Pete Stark: to thank the staff members who have worked hard over the past almost two years from the staff on the committee on energy and commerce, bridget taylor, karen nelson, andy snyder, amy hall, tim, hasen, and bobby clark for our owntaff of the committee on ways and means health subcommittee.

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Fortney Pete Stark: our staff director. i yield myself 10 seconds. jennifer, debi, karen, and drew dawson. i urge the passagef h.r. 2. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves his time.

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Frank Jr.Pallone: who seeks wreck -- recognition? mr. blunt: does the gentleman have any additional speakers besides his closing comments? mr. pallone: i do not. i was going to ask how much time remains. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from missouri has 90 seconds remaining. the gentleman from california, mr. herger, has one minute remaining. the gentleman from california, mr. stark, has one minute remaining. and the gentleman from new jersey has 2 3/4 minutes

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Speech By: Frank Jr.Pallone

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Frank Jr.Pallone: remaining. mr. pallone: madam speaker, i yield myself a minute and a half. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 90 seconds. mr. pallone: i want to stress how important this bill is and also that it is essentially the same bill that we passed in the last congress. it was bipartisan. it was passed in both houses

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Frank Jr.Pallone: with a fairly large margin. the only thing that stood in the way was president bush's veto. now, we do have a new president. we know he's supported the legislation. it is so crucial for the children of this country, the four million or so now who are eligible, but for whom there is no funding, who will be covered by this legislation it is fully paid for.

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Frank Jr.Pallone: and i think particularly now when we have a recession. and we know that so many people are losing their jobs and as a consequence their health insurance for themselves and their famies. what could be more important than making sure that those families now, that their children are covered by this legislation? i must say that i very proud of t fact that we are here in

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Frank Jr.Pallone: the first week essentially of this new congress passing this bill. i know that the other body's about to pass it as well. and that we will be able to send it to the president and have it be one of the first accomplishments of his presidency and of this congress. i know mr. stark already thanked the various staff members so i won't thank them again. i do want to pay particular attention to bridget taylor

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Frank Jr.Pallone: because i know that she worked on this legislation for two years or more and was even there when we first passed the schip bill 10 years before that. and it's always been one of the things that she cares so much about.

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i want to thank all of the staff people and all of my colleagues for the work that they did on this legislation. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from california, mr. herger. mr. herger: i reserve the one minute that i have to close, but i would yield to the the gentleman from missouri, mr.

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Nathan Deal: blunt, for the time that he has, that he controls. the speaker pro tempore: the ntleman from missouri is recognized. mr. blunt: i thank the speaker. and i yield my 90 seconds to the ranking member of the health subcommittee on energy and commerce, the gentleman from georgia, mr. deal. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from is recognized.

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Speech By: Nathan Deal

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Nathan Deal: mr. deal: i appreciate the gentleman for yielding. very few bills come to the floor to this house disassociated from facts as we have heard in this bill. let's talk about a few facts. the program was designed to ensure children that were above the medicaid level of poverty, but below 200% of poverty.

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Nathan Deal: all of the stories that we have heard today are from both sides of the aisle as to examples of children who are uninsured in almost every one of those instances are children that should have been insured under the current law. one of the amendments that i offered that was not allowed was

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Nathan Deal: an amendment that said before you can go up the poverty scale, you should have a 90% sat ration of those children that are below 200% of poverty. many states that are well above the 300% of poverty still have not covered a quarter of their children that are below the 200% of poverty lel. so poor children first is not in

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Nathan Deal: this bill. secondly with regard to e issue of illegal immigration, now you can say that illegal immigrants will not be allowed, but you are removing the requirements of certification of eligibility. and pregnant women, regardless of their immigration status, are considered children under the schip bill in everybody's version of the law.

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Nathan Deal: now, if you're not acknowledging that illegals are going to be enrolled in this program by virtue of the change you are making in this bill, then you ought to talk to c.b.o. because they say in the next 10 years the federal government will

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Nancy Pelosi: spend .1 billion of people who are here illegally in this country. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california, mr. stark. mr. stark: i'm delighted, madam speaker, to recognize the speaker of the house, the distinguished gentlelady from california, ms. pelosi. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california is

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Speech By: Nancy Pelosi

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Nancy Pelosi: recognized. the speaker: madam speaker, and i thank the gentleman from california for yielding. my colleagues, this is a day of triumph for america's children. with what i expect to be a strong bipartisan vote, the house will bring us one step closer to providing health care for 11 milln children in america.

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Nancy Pelosi: with this action and with the legislation last week to ensure equal pay for equal work for women, congress makes clear that we put women and children first. it is important that we have this legislation up so soon in this new cgress, because children are our top priority.

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Nancy Pelosi: we like to be considered a congress for the children, a congress for the future. at a time of economic crisis, nothing could be more essential than ensuring that children of hard-working families receive the quality health care they deserve. many of these children are from

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Nancy Pelosi: families are from hard-working families who have lost their jobs. it's sad to say america lost 2.6 million jobs last year. over half a million jobs were lost in the month of december, 5 00,000 jobs. it was 526,000 jobs.

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Nancy Pelosi: each month, until we have an economic recovery initiative, we will continue to lose at least 500,000 jobs per month. such job loss and america sees the health care coverage that we all need for our children disappear.

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Nancy Pelosi: for every 1% increase in the unemployment rate, it estimated that as many as 1.5 americans will lose their health care coverage, 47 million americans, including nine million children are without health insurance now. ensuring that children have access to affordable health care just makes sense.

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Nancy Pelosi: it's not just about addressing their health needs when they are sick, it's about keeping them healthy in advance. it's about prevention, it's about diet, not diabetes, it's about prevention, not amputation, it's about a healthier america.

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Nancy Pelosi: contrary to the views of some, an emergency room is not good health care on a regular basis. an emergency room is as it is described, for emergencies, not for ongoing health care. for those who say that all people in our country have access to health care, they can

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Nancy Pelosi: go to an emergency room, i don't know what they could be thinking. by ensuring health care coverage for 11 million children, families will have regular health care visits and preventive care we will ensure children get the care they need and health care costs are not inflated due to expensive emergency room care.

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Nancy Pelosi: that is why more than 80% of the american people support this legislation. it is bipartisan and fully paid for by 61-cent tax on a pack of cigarettes as a major part of its funding and represents a new direction, because, again, it is

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Nancy Pelosi: good health care for america's children. it is paid for. we have fought in the st congress together, democrats and republicans in the house and in the senate to pass this legislation, which we did, but it was vetoed. at the time, president bush said that we could not afford this legislation. that we could not afford to

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Nancy Pelosi: ensure -- insure america's children. 30 diss in iraq equals over 10 million children in america insured for one year, 40 days in iraq, one year insuring over 10

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Nancy Pelosi: million children. we certainly can afford to do that. we look forward to bringing this legislation to president obama's desk as one of the first bills he will sign. when we do, we owe a great deal of gratitude to chairman waxman,

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Nancy Pelosi: chairman dingell, chairman john dingell who worked on this issue for a long time and engineered it through the last congress. congressman pallone, the chair of the subcommittee, chairman stark, the congressional hispanic caucus, which led the fight to ensure that legal immigrant children are covered

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Nancy Pelosi: under this legislation and congressional black caucus, all elements of our congress. we could not succeed with just our inside maneuvering on the legislation, so important and so pervasive without the support of more than 300 organizations from

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Nancy Pelosi: aarp to ymca and everything in between. the march of dimes, easter seals, almost every organization you can name supported -- supports this schip for providing quality, affordable health care to america's children and support doing it by the passage of the state

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Nancy Pelosi: children's health insurance program legislation that we have before us today. so i thank all of those in the congress for their leadership in making this important day possible for america's children. it's important to children because of their health. it's important because it's paid r. we do something great for children without leaving amounts

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Nancy Pelosi: of -- leaving mountains of debt to future generations.

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John A. Boehner: let's keep our republic pewtation as a congress for children and a strong bipartisan vote to this important legislation. with that, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back her time. the gentleman from california, mr. herger. mr. herger: i yield the reminder of our time to our minority leader, mr. boehner.

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Speech By: John A. Boehner

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John A. Boehner: the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. boehner: madam speaker, thank you and thank my colleague from california for yielding. and i rise today in opposition to this bill frankly because of my strong support for the schip program. in 1997, republicans here in congress worked with our democrat colleagues to create the state children's health

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John A. Boehner: insurance program. i was there and many of you were here as well. and throughout that process, it was bipartisan, it was fair and open discussion and open debate and unfortunately today, the voices of millions of americans who want to provide input into this proposal have been silenced

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John A. Boehner: in the process. earlier this week, i wrote to speaker pelosi and president-elect obama expressing our willingness to work together on this critical issue. we outlined our principles for this program's re-authorization. the principles are nothing new. in fact, they're t same principles that led to the

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John A. Boehner: creation of schip in 1997. and they are this. this proam ought to cover poor children first. unfortunately, many states, more than 2/3 of those enrolled in the schip program are adults. anthere's nothing in this bill that really does ensure that poor children will be brought

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John A. Boehner: into the program first. secondly, taxpayer funds for this program should not be used to fund benefits for iegal immigrants and there's been a big debate about whether it does or doesn't, t the fact is that while the bill says we will not cover illegal immigrants in this bill, the whole verification process that should be in here

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John A. Boehner: to ensure that only american citizens and legal residents are entitled to these benefits, there is no verification system to speak of that is contained in the bill. and we also believe that schip should not force children with private insurance into a state

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John A. Boehner: health insurance program. last year in this proposal, there were -- there was language that made it clear that children with private health insurance programs -- they should stay in that private program and should not be pushed into the ste-run program. unfortunately, the bill before

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John A. Boehner: us does not reflect these principles. the same ones that have guided this progr since its creation. i believe that the bill before us would undermine the original inat the present time of the schip program by expandi the program to adults, illegal immigrants and upper-income families who already have access to private health insurance.

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John A. Boehner: i think taxpayers deserve better. and more importantly, our nation's children deserve better. that's why today republicans will offer a better way. i said on the opening day when i gave the gavel to ms. pelosi that republicans will not just be the party of no, that we wil come to the floor with better solutions.

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John A. Boehner: and the better solution that we will overhear soon is a program that would re-authorize schip for seven years and not 4 1/2 years that we see in the majority's bill. it will reflect our principles and making it clear that poor children should be covered first and it will fully fund the schip

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John A. Boehner: program without raising taxes on american families across our country. madam speaker, federal funds targeted for low-income children should benefit low-income children, period. only one measure on the floor today will serve the interests -- will serv those children's interests and that's what the motion to recommit will contain.

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John A. Boehner: so i would urge my colleagues to vote yes on the motion to commit and no on the underlying bill. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. without objection, the gentleman from california, mr. waxman. the gentleman from new jersey, mr. pallone is recognized.